A. S. Byatt Quotes
I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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George W. Bush is long gone, and with him the idea that 'Israel can do no wrong.'
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The purpose of a business is to create customers.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.
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I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.
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'American Idol' is the fast track to fame. I'm just lucky it worked out. I don't feel different. The way people react to me is different.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
